PuroSolo, you are correct.  The “Pete” phrase appears in @ob-wan  post #50590 as follows:  Believe me, Pete’s agent is on the p…[Read more]

@ob-wan I don’t believe that ‘Pete’ Capaldi (has he been introduced as such?) is…

Please, Please, PLEASE…

…do not put my name anywhere near a comment like that.

I already have enough people trying to read INTO what I write instead of reading what I ACTUALLY write.

LOL.

I said that he hadn’t been “well-received unive…[Read more]

All the current reports have filming starting in early March (slightly later than usual, which is what led to much…[Read more]

Have just read your post re: Lawyers etc. Obviously it works for Americans, but seems unnecessarily complicated to me.

As far as I know, we have Barristers (as you say taken from “The Bar”) who fight in court – silks – all of whom have different preferences. Some murder, some tax invasion etcetera. Solicitors are who one goes to…[Read more]

AG Who  =   after gap  versus BG   before gap.

The gap years were when there were no episodes  from the BBC

@Allonsy

Daily motion has all the Who episodes from all the Doctors  although there might be a few

holes.   Just type in Doctor Who and the episode in the search bar.  You might probably have to do

some navigating around and …[Read more]

AG is just an abbreviation for after gap.

I’ve had Hulu before. The selection is good. The only reason I cancelled it is because I have cable and could watch all the shows when they aired. If I wasn’t cursed with Comcast, which has a data cap on their Internet, I would drop the cable and just use Hulu.

I thought so, how very confusing. In the old days – according to Dickens – ‘lawyer’ was used instead of Barrister.

It was possibly changed to Barrister and Soliciter to avoid confusion. Unfortunately I never know which is which in American programmes.

Cheers,

Missy

I fear there is a lot going on behind the scenes of the BBC and the UK government, and there are many vested interests, perhaps SKY or US corporations such as FOX.

I’m kinda…[Read more]

Quoting Amelia Pond, “Oh, get a grip Obi-Wan Kenobi”! Have you registered on this forum only to tell people that they are wrong?!

@puroandson

Give my regards to your mum. I’m listening Prokofiev Piano Concert no 2 and think about her.

I don’t really know if I want Capaldi to stay. 12 has such a strong personality and he tells a lot…[Read more]

@Ob-wan Okay, I figured it out.  Thanks Charles for the hints on how to work it.  (:  These are just four I picked out of her face.  There are a ton of ballet photos on her Facebook.

My pick for Romana.  Her, or Sara Lamb of the Royal Ballet.

You are NOT the boss of me and I am not interested in tailoring my posts to please you. I will continue to use caps when I feel it’s appropriate to emphasize my p…

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On reboots and language in general.

And it will never be correct no matter how much you may rationalize it to yourself.  The definition of words aren’t going to change to suit your musings.

Not my musings, no, but with the musings of enough people then they do. Words change their meanings and even their spellings all the time and th…[Read more]

Good point.

Missy

Here is a good article on the oncoming Chibnall.  http://www.cnet.com/news/steven-moffat-final-season-of-doctor-who-showrunner-in-2017/    It’s good to hear he is a true fan, understands it’s a family show and…[Read more]

Straw man = misrepresentation of another’s argument in order to make it easier to attack.

@OB-wan

You do not that reboot actually means restart, don’t you?  It is imported from computing and is what happens when you shut off a computer and then restart it. Nothing is jettisoned, although it can be a good way of clearing cruft out of…[Read more]

The definition of words aren’t going to change to suit your musings.

I think ‘reboot’ as a film and TV term really only dates back slightly over a decade. I seem to remember the new Battlestar Galactica being described as a ‘reboot’, and then Batman Begins picked it up. But what they were doing was nicking a computer t…[Read more]

There are right words and wrong words to suit every occasion.

True, but this is not one of those occasions. You’re being painfully literal. Again. And to repeat, there’s nothing actually incorrect with the usage of the word, for the reasons outlined above.

But since you live and die by dictionary defintions, here’s the OED on the…[Read more]

Words have meanings attached to them

Yes, they do but once again it’s a great deal more nuanced and complicated than that. In almost every case it’s not a one-to-one correlation (and let’s not open the can of worms of signifier and signified and to the relative instablity of the relationships between them). Let’s just say that there’s…[Read more]

 I can just imagine how much RTD and SWM would be laughing at us for spending so much time discussing such a minor point.

On the contrary, I’d say they’d be chuffed that their work is continuing to engage and involve even more than 10 years after transmission. What writer wouldn’t.

It seems you have leapfrogged over the posts where I…

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It’s not nuclear power (and I know because I’ve worked in nuclear power).

Good. Now, imagine how you’d feel if I kept repeating the same, wrong, explanation of the way nuclear power works, using a dictionary definition, and consistently misapplying one of the technical terms.

I apologise if this is annoying you, but while you’ve wor…[Read more]

Netflix has “Classic Doctor Who” (that’s what it’s credited as).  It has some complete serials for a few of the Doctors.  It has 1 story arc (or serials) each for the 1st and 2nd doctors.  It has 3 or 4 for the 3rd Doctor (including “The Three Doc…[Read more]

@OB-Wan—

It’s rather rude of you to use a loaded word like “prejudice” instead of “opinion” – a little passive aggressive too.

Not really. An ‘opinion’ is a conclusion or stance arrived at via evidence and argument. As you by your own admission are refusing to be swayed by a…[Read more]

It might help if you read my blog, because then we’d all be on the same page about what a DEM is. Or you could read the Wikipedia article. Arguing from a dictionary definition is a bit tricky; at the moment you’re coming across rather like someone arguing that the force of gravity doesn’t apply when we’re stationary because the…[Read more]

If you look at the definition of DEM you will see that there is nothing in it that forbids such vague foreshadowing.

Now, there I have to disagree with you. The whole point of a genuine DEM is that it isn’t foreshadowed. If you keep vaguely mentioning Poseidon throughout your series, don’t be too surprised if he turns up in the last…[Read more]

Canon is whatever the writers say it is until they want to change it.

You’ve just defined the Doctor’s attitude to the laws of time. 🙂

So your argument goes ‘I’ve made up my mind it’s a DEM and no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to talk me out of that prejudice’.

PotW does not end with a DEM for two fundamental reasons–

1. Bad Wolf as a concept is seeded through the entire series.

2. The heart of the TARDIS which creates BW does not come out anywhere…[Read more]

To be fair, RTD set up Rose’s Mad Godz Skillz in Boom Town, when he established that looking into the heart of the TARDIS does Weird Stuff.

But in my blog I note that:

1. the scenario in Parting of the Ways is set up so that it needs a dea to unravel it, and
2. RTD not only knows perfectly well what he’s doing, he uses an actual winch as…

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There’s nothing any writer can do about the stupidity of the networks (but anyway, bringing Marsters in was a condition of renewing Angel).

And also, what @JimTheFish said. What both showed had was liberal use of  the word “quantum” as general purpose handwaveium.

Not sure I’d agree about the ‘magic’ angle either. As essentially a fantasy show, Who is full of magic. It just dresses it up in the borrowed clothes of SF a lot of the time, that’s all….

Have the same reservations – would much prefer Toby Whithouse – and entirely agree on Broadchurch 2. It was a masterclass in adjusting the universe to fit the story, which is bass ackwards and rather spoiled the understated humanity of the first series. But, he deserves a chance and we can also hope that Moff goes out on an even…[Read more]

Well, a little more general th…[Read more]

Hello there and welcome.

Re: “I usually go with the credits. When a person is listed in the opening credits, to me, that makes them a companion, even if it’s just for one episode, like Wilfred Mott in “The End of Time” or Craig Owens in “Closing Time”.

Adam, played by Bruno Langley, was the boy genius In DALEK and THE LONG GAME, the…[Read more]

Neither of you are bad people. Then hopefully we can all start off on a better footing tomorrow.

Apologies @ob-wan

@pedant Can you explain yourself? WTF are you up to? Are you angry about something else maybe?

This is a site for discussion about Doctor Who, and other related, and not so related stuff. It is not…[Read more]

And one thing I’m really good at is giving as good as I get.

Actually, you’re not. Repeating stuff said to you back is just exceptionally lazy plagiarism.

 I’ll try to participate some more.

It just a pity it took three whacks with the clue stick.

Now I really do recommend going back and reading through this thread, because you will see h…[Read more]

We have become a bit protective of this space as most other Doctor Who boards are just awful. And we have had to defend it time and again, from really awful people sometimes.

Unfortunately it’s the internet and anyone can join. But we…[Read more]

We’re actually very friendly round here – we just sometimes pull up the drawbridge and yell “Your…[Read more]

Be careful about laying down standards

Says the poster who looked up the dictionary definition of ‘camp’….and then pointed at Peter Capaldi.

Jeebus, you’re not even making sport of this. To repeat for the slow of clue-getting:

Seriously. Read the thread and see the sort of standards we aspire to around here. ‘Cos this ain’t Youtu…

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Oh my God! You can Google!

Now, do you have anything interesting to say?

Although i really enjoyed the first three Doctors (since 2005) each with their varied ways of potraying the Doctor.

Peter Capaldi has brought something special to the part, in my opinion he is more ‘human’ than the other three.

It’s interesting to read other points of view, but seriously (as clara would say) there is no need for you to…[Read more]

Well, it keeps that bit of kerfuffle alive, I suppose, and anything that maintains DW’s flexible backstory is worth…[Read more]

@puroandson Thanks for the…[Read more]

There are two ways you can prosper in this forum:

1) Have something interesting and pertinent to say;

Striiiike 1

2) Root what you say in a theory of literature or at the very least a clear grasp of storytelling, its purpose and role;

Striiiike 2.

3) Be witty

Striiike 3. Yer out!

I realise that technically that three ways. So sue…[Read more]

I don’t think you could be more wrong about Capaldi, however. Of course it…[Read more]